04 / QIMING LIU
News & Press
Critical writing, interviews and conversations.
From Social Reciprocity to Play: A Sociological Reading of Qiming Liu’s Red Envelope
Liao Liao reads the one-fen electronic red envelope through the changing relationships between social reciprocity, exchange, equality, and play.
The Meaning of Images in Qiming Liu’s Social Media Circle
Liao Liao examines fragmentation, shared identities, visual consumption, and the distance between an image and the event it represents.
Examining History and Facing Reality
Li Pin responds to Qiming Liu’s Sensitive Words for a Day, discussing historical memory, social responsibility and the writer’s own views on contemporary society.
A Reverie on an Oil Painting: Floating in the Air
Jing Yu reflects on the figure, gray space and troubled sense of fate in Qiming Liu’s Swimmer No. 01, in an essay written in Hangzhou in 2009.
Preserving Personal Historical Memory — On Qiming Liu’s Oil Paintings
Wang Lin considers Liu’s painting as a personal, poetic response to historical forgetting, and a challenge to collective discourse.
Life Hanging by a Thread — Qiming Liu and His Paintings
Gao Ling follows the thread connecting Liu’s personal experience, symbolic political landscapes, and the precarious figures suspended within them.
Between Passion and Reflection — On Qiming Liu’s Oil Paintings
Wu Yongqiang reads Liu’s changing visual languages as a continuous inquiry into dignity, memory, passion, and the individual’s historical condition.
The Art of Liu Qi
He Duojun considers Liu Qi’s rural childhood, his journeys between the plateau and the city, and the recognition of his paintings, examining their social critique, viewpoint and developing individuality.
Asking Heaven (A Faint Light)
A poem dedicated to the painter, moving between darkness, an almost vanishing light and the thoughts prompted by his work.
Farewell to the Mask: The Art of Liu Qi
Gong Shui considers passion, ideas and social masks through Liu Qi’s black-and-white paintings and works shown in his 1995 solo exhibition, reading his artistic practice as a succession of farewells and acts of self-transcendence.
One Yuan for One Hundred People?
Peter Agni examines Red Envelope through the social, commercial and reciprocal meanings of the gift, focusing on the expectations and inner responses elicited when one yuan is divided among one hundred participants.
Qiming Liu: Recording History in Painting
Wang Yaqing reflects on encountering Qiming Liu’s paintings through Wu Yongqiang’s writing, and on the recovery of historical truth and personal memory through color and form.
The Highest Directive: Drinking Water of One’s Own Accord, Urinating Involuntarily
An archived visitor’s account of an afternoon at 798, including a personal response to Qiming Liu’s A Single Thread paintings and their tension between lightness and weight.